Unless the present decline can be reversed, these analysts fear, the United States and other wealthy industrial powers of the West face the distinct possibility, in the words of British economist Barbara Ward, 'of a sort of international class war'.' What is lacking are any positive proposals ...
. However, Merli Baroudi, Director of Risk Services for the England-based Economist Intelligence Unit, which provided data for the project, defended the plan as simply "trying to gather insights of people in a cost effective way" (ibid.). Many economists, political advisors, and political ...
Regarding the links between the latter and competition, the work of another Schumpeterian economist, Michael Porter, was very influential in European policy-making circles. In The Competitive Advantage of Nations (1990), Porter wrote that while it is firms which compete in the market, it is ...
It is difficult indeed to chart out the intellectual influences which made up the academic career of Habermas. He had encyclopaedic knowledge of contemporary philosophical and social theories. Central to his work, however, have been the theorists of the Frankfurt School and the classic...
Noble lies and perpetual war: Leo Strauss, the neo-cons, and IraqAre the ideas of the conservative political philosopher Leo Strauss a shaping influence on the Bush administration’s world outlook? Danny Postel interviews Shadia Drury – a leading scholarly critic of Strauss – and asks her abou...
Regarding the links between the latter and competition, the work of another Schumpeterian economist, Michael Porter, was very influential in European policy-making circles. In The Competitive Advantage of Nations (1990), Porter wrote that while it is firms which compete in the market, it is ...